Notes for Session 9
Homework
All core vids, about an hour total.
Deja vu all over again; The Peoples Park in Bezerkly California
The park Peoples Park 1968 - YouTube
The eviction: National Guard called in response to student protests at UC-Berkeley: 1969 - YouTube
A luta continua People's Park Protest 1969 - YouTube :
That was then,
This is now (Occupy Barcelona, May 2011)
Optional Plaça de Catalunya (see Vids 1, 2, and 5 ... more if you like)
Optional The Strawberry Statement Video A fictional movie loosely based within the Columbia University occupation, but "informed" by the People's Park and numerous other occupations in the 60s.
Music & Culture
The 1960s
Thinking about it, two songs that I think capture two of the principle threads of the 60s might be:
If aspirational folk rock was the 1960s, angry rap rock ala Rage Against the Machine was the Anti-Globalization movement, then
What is the music that expresses the culture, values and aspirations of Occupy?
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
W. B. Yeats Easter, 1916
- Mike Kaulbars's blog
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